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The powder as will ly upon A 6 ponce in A gill
of white wine & drink itt Fasting.
A dram of rubarb powdered fine 1/2 A dram of
Crabs Eyes prepared A serupe of Saffron powdered
2 drams of Chio Turpintine the best.
Put these in Amortar and pestle ready warmed
mix them very well with as much powder of Liquorish
as wil make them into A mass whin done soe make
them into pis & when dryed put them in A box &
take 1/2 A dram of these pills once A fortnight att
the new and full of the moon, take them not in A
fit but only by way of provention.

A Diet Drink

Take 3 handfulls of scruby, water cresses & brook lime
of each 2 handfulls, rue, age, lavander, rosemary, time
Lavander cotton, Saint Johns wort wormewood mugwort,
green broomtops plantaine, bramble berrie leaves of each
one handfull, monk rubard 4 Ounces horse radishh 3
Ounces thin slliced three Oringes sliced allom burnt
and powdered four ponce

For The Scorvy

Take one gallon 1 [dram] 1/2 A peck of 4 leav'd bramble stalks
Chop and bruise them one handfull of wormewood 3 gallons
of clear spring water boil these to one gallon of this
liquor take all5 spoonfulls & 2 of white wine morneing &
Evening, if you please & A little juice of Oringe & sugar.
Take A quart of blew milk and boil it then make A possit
with A pint of scurvy grass juice, A pint of white wine &
A pint of white wine vinegar. Take a pint of this every
morneing & fast till dinner

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Receipt For the Stone

Take 2 handfull of parsley two handfulls of parsley two handfulls of saxa=
frage 2 handfulls of mother time 4 Large horse
raddish roots & handfull of march mallowes roots
A handfull of philapendula, & a hand of pellitory
of the wall, two handfull of mallow floows all the
roots must be sliced & herbs A llittle choped & all
washed and Dryed in A Linnen cloath these must be
put in A large pipkin to 6 quarts of new milk
from the next morneing put it into 2 stills
with A quick fire then stiring it very often the
fire must be kept night & day till it bee
Still'd when you haue distill'd it put it into bottles and set them in the sun or in an Oven.
Take 6 spoonfulls of this water in 6 spoonfulls
of white wine. with the quantity of 1/2 a nut megg
Sliced every time sweeten it with A little
Sugar, 3 dayes before the change and 3 dayes
after the Change of the moon & 3 dayes before
the full of the moon, & e dayes after & att
otther times if ottasion require but be
certain of the change of the moon.

the snale water

Take 2 quarts of snails with the shells on, wash thm & then shake
thm in A cloath to dry thm put to thm 2 qurts of new milk honey
A pound 2 handfulls of colts foot Egrimony & maiden hair
Ale hoose that we vse to call Gill run by the Ground of each 2
Little handfulls or one good handfull still these in an Ordinary
Still.
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